Public Health (Nevis) Regulations

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Night Soil (Saint Christopher) Regulations. Restriction on Transporting Night Soil through Streets.

2. No night soil shall be transported through the streets of Basseterre unless the same has been previously treated with dry earth and the containers provided with a cover. __________ SEVENTEENTH SCHEDULE (Section 11) PUBLIC HEALTH (NEVIS) REGULATIONS Short title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Public Health (Nevis) Regulations. Owners or occupiers to keep houses, etc., clean.

2. Owners or occupiers of all houses or other premises in Charlestown and throughout the Districts, are required at all times to keep such houses or premises, in every respect, clean and free from matter of every kind, which may be offensive to persons residing in the neighbourhood, or be detrimental, to the public health. Owners or occupiers of houses, etc., to clean their houses, etc., daily.

3. The owners or occupiers of all houses or other premises in the town of Charlestown shall cause their several premises to be cleaned daily (Sundays excepted) and the filth, dirt, or rubbish to be removed from the town, or deposited at the side of the street nearest their premises in casks, boxes, or other suitable receptacles previously to eight o’clock a.m. Removal of filth, etc.

4. All filth, dirt, and rubbish from the streets or other public places of Charlestown shall be removed every day (Sundays excepted) by such person or persons as the Board shall appoint. Privies, Pits, etc., to be kept in sanitary condition.

5. Owners or occupiers of all houses, or other premises in Charlestown and throughout the Districts are required to keep their privies, pits, or other receptacles for night-soil, in a sanitary condition, and also in such a state as not to give offence by bad smells; and for this purpose they shall, as regards pits, apply thereto dry earth or other proper disinfectants in such quantities, and so often, as may be necessary for keeping down such smells, and shall remove the contents from such pits as often as is LAWS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER 58 CAP. 9.21 Public Health Act AND NEVIS Revision Date: 31 Dec 2020 necessary for the purpose of keeping such pits in a clean, inoffensive, and sanitary condition. Keeping and collecting of manure.

6. No person in the villages throughout the Districts or within thirty feet thereof shall keep or collect any manure heap for a longer period than three days. Throwing and depositing of dead animals, etc., upon a public street prohibited.

7. No dead animal, night-soil, manure, rotten or decayed substance or filth of any kind, shall be thrown or deposited upon any public street or road, or in any pond or running water: Provided that this shall not apply to bonâ fide collections of offal deposited temporarily by the side of any road for the purpose of being removed by the public scavenger. Throwing or letting out night-soil, etc., upon any place prohibited.

8. No night-soil, washings, kitchen slops, or offensive matter of any kind, shall be thrown or let out upon any place where the same may be offensive to persons residing in the neighbourhood, or be detrimental to the public health; and in every such case the occupier of the premises whence the same issued, or the person committing the nuisance, shall be held responsible. Restriction on keeping of pigs.

9. No pig shall be kept by any person in Charlestown and no pig shall be kept by any person in the Districts within ten feet of any road or occupied house, and in no case shall filth or urine be allowed to remain under or around such pig. Inspection of fresh meat for sale.

10. All persons throughout the Districts, offering for sale any fresh meat, shall on the application made at a reasonable time and place by a member or authorised servant of the Board or any District Board, produce for his or her inspection the organs of the animal slaughtered, and in the event of any such person refusing to show such organs the carcass shall be deemed unfit for food and destroyed. Restrictions on sale of animals which die from infectious diseases, etc.

11. No animal having died or supposed to have died from any infectious or contagious disease, shall be opened or skinned except it be necessary for veterinary purposes and in that case the skin must be buried with the carcass. Keeping of disinfectants.

12. The Central Board of Health shall keep under the care of the Clerk a sufficient quantity of disinfectants to be used by the Central and District Boards as the Central Board and District Boards or the District Medical Officers shall from time to time direct. Burying of carcasses of animals.

13. No person shall allow the carcass of any animal which was his or her property or in his or her possession to remain unburied. __________